The child worships Big Momma, the aging matriarch of the family, but more than once she manages to lose the black dolls given to her by this beloved role model; Mary Elouise is much happier playing with her white dolls and dreaming of how perfect things will be when a fair-skinned, blonde-haired classmate named Brandy becomes her best friend.

With laundry to do (all hand washing), vegetables to be devoured and canned for winter, and school lessons to be planned, I am like little blonde-haired blue-eyed Yulia in Pidvolochisk--who, everyday, asked me in Ukrainian (three times until I understood her), "When can we go play?

SILENT WITNESS: Amanda Burton and her murder-solving arched eyebrows may have left us, but replacing her is swishy blonde-haired beauty Emilia Fox with a fringe so long itOs a wonder she can see the corpses sheOs cutting.

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